This is the BEST* Amazon Smart Home Dashboard! Echo Hub Review

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I tested the new Echo Hub in my smart home! Here’s the good, bad, and who it’s designed for.

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0:00 Intro
0:30 Design
1:47 Smart Home Controls
4:34 UI Design
6:14 What’s missing
8:04 Who is this for?
9:06 Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right Start Select

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MUSIC
Doctor Momentum by Slynk
All of the music throughout is by Nihilore.
Spotify playlist:

Ending song is The End by EVA.

alias: Dashboard cheat code
description: “”
trigger:
– platform: state
entity_id:
– input_button.up_button
condition: []
action:
– wait_for_trigger:
– platform: state
entity_id:
– input_button.up_button
– wait_for_trigger:
– platform: state
entity_id:
– input_button.down_button
– wait_for_trigger:
– platform: state
entity_id:
– input_button.down_button
– wait_for_trigger:
– platform: state
entity_id:
– input_button.left_button
– wait_for_trigger:
– platform: state
entity_id:
– input_button.right_button
– wait_for_trigger:
– platform: state
entity_id:
– input_button.left_button
– wait_for_trigger:
– platform: state
entity_id:
– input_button.right_button
– wait_for_trigger:
– platform: state
entity_id:
– input_button.start_button
– wait_for_trigger:
– platform: state
entity_id:
– input_button.select_button
– service: input_boolean.turn_on
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.secret_unlocked
data: {}
enabled: true
– delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 10
milliseconds: 0
enabled: true
– service: input_boolean.turn_off
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.secret_unlocked
data: {}
enabled: true
mode: single

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41 Comments

  7. I am an "On oand Off" user and I didn't know about this device until now. Living in scandinavia. Just using Google nest hub for playing music and asking for weather. 🙂But it is interesting have it interact with lights and after buying an air sensor i bought an humidifier also controllable from google home. 🙂

  25. I don’t understand why they don’t at least make one model that runs like a modern day machine should. That touch response looks like it’s straight out of 1985. There’s a reason nobody in the masses gave a crap about touch screens until the iPhone came out. It blows my mind that anybody still makes crap touch screens so many years later.

  41. I discovered if I have a video or music playing on my kitchen echo show 15 and I use the echo hub in the living room for anything or if you even walk by it and trip the motion sensor, it causes the echo show to stop playing whatever I have going

  43. I already have an echo dot and I want this but I’m just wondering can I use on my echo dot for audio and audio input but use that as a screen so I can control my bedroom. Sorry this comment doesn’t make any sense.

  55. Any update video coming for "zigbee" remotes/buttons?

    Looking for something with enough buttons similar to a "FUT089Z" but then without the sliders [OFF THE SHELF] [the DIY model is something I might get as a last resort if nothing else works]

    I need a remote with at least 16+ buttons [mostly for use with curtains/blinds] [3 master, 3x 3btn open/close/stop, and 1 childlock]

    I might also be able to use a IR blaster in reverse [so I can use a generic remote instead of a zigbee one]

  57. Where I disagree is if you use the Ring Alarm. Once you setup the proper GROUPS in the Alexa app this works really great! I use SmartThings, Wyze, Switchbot and many others that once GROUPS are set up you can access things WAY faster then the Alexa app or Echo show devices. With Ring alarm with a subscription and a group setup you can access ALL of your sensors on ONE page and see their status open/closed and now with the latest updates can set/disarm the system using the onscreen keypad on the hub which is WAY cool or use the standard voice commands as before. I was looking for a keypad replacement and the Echo Hub does that for me.

    Even with the latest updates I do NOT think the Echo Hub is for everyone but with the right equipment (Ring Alarm) and others this is the cats MEOW for home control at a glance for the average user without coding or using Home Assistant which requires more knowledge and time and can do most of what needs to be done for a "Smart Home"

    Hopefully Amazon continues to build on this platform and has ALOT of potential IMO!

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